Archive for September, 2003



Link dump

Building accessible tables — how to make your <table> tags readable for visually impaired people.
“Links & Javascript living together in harmony”: — the proper way to use Javascript in links.
Liquid design for the web — why it’s sometimes a bad idea to have a web page with a static width.
Layoutomatic — A CSS generator that [...]

Court is adjourned

This judge in the Microsoft vs. Hyperphrase case certainly does have a nice way with words.

Microsoft’s insouciance so flustered Hyperphrase that nine of its attorneys [...] promptly filed a motion to strike the summary judgment motion as untimely. Counsel used bolded italics to make their point, a clear sign of grievous iniquity by one’s foe. [...]

A political statement

Enlightenment

“Whenever someone thinks that they can replace SSL/SSH with something much better that they designed this morning over coffee, their computer speakers should generate some sort of penis-shaped sound wave and plunge it repeatedly into their skulls until they achieve enlightenment.”
— Peter Gutmann

Colors in the sky

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Jeremy Hadley had an image that needed color correction. I gave it a shot. Before:

And after:

The sky is still a bit too purple, but that’s what you get from 15 seconds of Photoshopping.

Email versus RSS

An interesting article about some sites who are switching to RSS feeds instead of news letters.

“E-mail is dead, period,” declares Chris Pirillo, the Internet entrepreneur who distributes about 400,000 e-mail newsletters weekly. “I don’t care what kind of legislation goes through, people aren’t signing up for newsletters anymore. People are assuming that every e-mail publisher [...]

Happy birthday

On my 34th birthday, March 21st 2014, I may get an asteroid for present! Isn’t that nice? (Via Antipixel)

The British agency responsible for identifying potentially hazardous asteroids says US astronomers are warning of a possible collision in 2014.

The UK Government’s Near Earth Object Centre says American astronomers have discovered a large, fast-approaching asteroid that could [...]